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Conspectus Summit on Outsourcing - "ACHIEVING THE RIGHT RESULTS"
The recent Conspectus Summit conference on Outsourcing featured speakers among both buyers and suppliers of outsourcing services, as well as external consultants. But whatever their perspective, the speakers emphasised time and again the importance of relationship building in outsourcing success.
This newswire sums up opinion from the conference in a series of easy-access articles. The theme of ‘achieving the right results’ from outsourcing partnerships is timely, coming against a background of growing complexity in the market – as outsourcing spreads beyond IT to finance, HR and back-office processing, and contracts extend from those based on simple service level agreements to those built around shared risk and reward.
However, no business can walk away from the task of dealing with outsourcing’s growing complexity. Figures from Gartner suggest that by 2007, 56% of IT services will be outsourced. It’s a fad that’s here to stay.
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Industry Reports: INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY
The squeeze on organisations to extract more value out of their IT investments has pushed integration technology to the top of the corporate agenda in recent years. Maybe it is a sign of the increasing sophistication of corporate end users, as well as the greater simplicity of the software, that boardrooms can now happily get involved in an IT area that was previously irredeemably 'techie'.
At the same time, integration product sets have helped widen their own appeal by incorporating new accessible areas of automation, like business process management, workflow and business activity monitoring. It all holds out the hope that organisations can build a flexible technology infrastructure that allows them to react rapidly to business change - this industry report examines various aspects of how this dream can be made a reality.
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PMP Research - "A FRESH LOOK AT THE MAINFRAME"
After years of the mantra of distributed computing the wheel is slowly turning and enterprises are beginning to take a critical look at how they architect their IT infrastructure. Simply deploying more and more distributed resources has resulted in a level of complexity that is difficult to manage, often under utilised and increasingly expensive to maintain.
No wonder that reducing this complexity and optimising the use of IT is high on the agenda for most CIO's today. This is why many businesses are now taking a fresh look at how they can use mainframes to make their IT environment more controllable, secure and cost effective.
PMP Research asked four leading industry analysts to give their views on why the mainframe still has a critical role to play in today's IT environment.
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Conspectus Summit on Enterprise Integration - "MAKING IT REAL, MAKING IT HAPPEN"
Few people could have predicted a few years ago that enterprise integration technology would ever escape from the ‘techie’ realm to become a mainstream business cost saver.
But with the growing need to improve information sharing across different areas of the business, and react more rapidly to regulatory and business change, integration technology has come into its own.
However, while enterprise application integration (EAI) software is designed to simplify IT management and datasharing, there are still a number of business and technicalissues to address in the drive towards ‘joined up computing’.
A recent Conspectus Summit event, sponsored by Capgemini and Oracle, discussed the latest thinking in this area – and this report highlights some of the key presentations and findings from the event.
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Conspectus Summit on Outsourcing - "RETAINING CONTROL"
The mood among corporate IT buyers is as sunny as it's been for years: the economy has steadied, the IT market has recovered and many organisations are investing in technology for competitive advantage.
But one thing everyone agrees on is that we will never return to the free-spending 1990s: corporate IT purchasers are a bit older and wiser - and outsourcing typifies that hard-won experience. Outsourcing is the one area of IT that guarantees cost savings, and that's why it's been the one IT boom area in recent years.
But now companies are learning to demand more of their outsource service suppliers: not only cost savings and guaranteed service levels, but innovation and service improvements.
A recent Conspectus Summit, sponsored by Computacenter, discussed these latest trends - and this report captures some of the key presentations from the event. We hope it will be a useful addition to your IT knowledge bank.
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